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Originally Posted by stupid
Just as a side note.
I used general hydro's sub culture in my dwc buckets, and all it did was stick to the roots and stunt my plant. If you aren't useing media its not a good idea.
I'v tried it in soil too, with no noticable affect on yeild or plant health.
some people sware to it. I sware at thoes people.
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Yea, I had similar experience. We have a aerogarden with some herbs growing in it. I tried the stuff in that thing and it was a big mess. Just as you say stuck to roots and muck things up. We had to clean out the aerogarden and sterilize it to get it to work.
Other times I have uses it in soil and I put the spores in there and killed them right away with chlorinated water and salt nutes. No effect at all and I wasted the stuff.
I have experimented with it a lot, quit using it in favor of H2O2 at one point, I went back to using it because I found if I use it right I save money on pathogen control, and get smoother transplants.
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Originally Posted by groputillor
Can you say what the exact product is called on fungi.com please? I'm a noob and I don't wanna buy the wrong stuff.
Can I use it in my foxfarm ocean forest soil?
Can I come to you with more questions once I start using it?
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MycoGrow™ Soluble for Potting Soils & Rooting Media
http://www.fungi.com/mycogrow/index.html
They sell 1oz quantity in a little baggie and 1lb in a big jar. The 1oz is plenty if you want to just do a few batches of plants in soil. I like the 1lb because the big jar makes it easier to get a little bit out and use it efficiently. But nearly $80 is a lot to spend.
yes in soil you can use it and I can answer your questions, but I am not a biologist, just a closet weed farmer.
I use it with some "alaska fish fertilize 5-1-1" it's cheep stuff but it feeds the fungi. The fox farm soil you have (which I have never used) supposedly has earthworm castings, and bat guano in it, so you may not need to use the fish fertilizer that I recommend. I had really bad luck with those sugary additives like molasses as they fed the stuff in such a way to mess up my ph. One thing is that you currently do have microbes in your soil, it's organic poop based soil so it must have microbes growing in it already. I use coco coir and I start with a basically sterile medium, if I don't feed the microbes they die straight away. So I use the fish stuff along with the water and spores when I initially hydrate my medium. So for me the spores I add have no competition from local microbes and this way I am 100% sure the microbes I see are the ones I grew. In your case it will be different, the spores you add will need to compete with the local microbes. I also use the stuff in my outdoor vegetable garden and people tell me my garden looks like it's on steroids compared to the neighbor's. The thing is I do a lot of things differently from my neighbor.